Length	Medium
Difficulty	Moderate
Requirements	Must have completed Fishing Competition, Dwarf Cannon. Level 30 Defense, 40 mining, 50 Smithing required. Must be able to defeat a level 75 monster.
Suggested items	Coins, gold ore, 4 gold bars, Ammo Mould.
Reward	5,000 Defense, Mining, and Smithing experience. 2 Quest Points. Rune Pickaxe. Some food, armor, weapons.

Higher mining levels may be an advantage.

To start this quest you'll need to find the Keldagrim mines , under the Troll Mountains. Go east of Rellekka until you reach the mountains. Go north until you find a tunnel. This is the cave that leads from the snowy lands where you can sled in the Troll Romance Quest. Directly in front of you, you should see a small Cave Entrance. Go in and you'll be in an area with a couple of Dwarves. Talk to the Dwarven Ferryman, pay him two coins to go across the river.

Go a ways east, then north, and back west again. You should find a dwarf named Dondakan who is firing a cannon at a rock. The rock, apparently, impenetrable. The Dwarves thought there was treasure inside the rock, but they've given up trying to get through it. Dondakan will ask you if you want to help him. Say it sounds interesting to start the quest.

Dondakan needs to find out more about the rock if he's ever going to get through it. Go back across the river and go south, look for a Dwarven Engineer (he's holding a wrench), talk to him and ask about the Rock. It seems a fellow named Rolad used to work on the rock and might have some information. He's supposedly with the Black Guard (not the Black Knights) near the Ice Mountain.

Go to the entrance to the Dwarven mine, Rolad is in one of the buildings. He had a book with some information about the Rock and tore out the pages he wanted to study later, but he's lost them in the Dwarven mines (not in the mining guild, just the main parts of the mines). You need to find the three pages of the book.
Page One: Go to the South-East part of the mine, kill a Scorpian and you'll get a page. Page Two: When you enter the Mines, follow the tracks to the south. Search the mine cart sitting by itself. Page Three: Mine any rock in the Mines to get page three.

Take the pages back to Rolad who will reassemble the book. The book details how a creature possessed by a demonic spirit named Bordanzan was encased in the unbreakable rock by something referred to only as "yellow power stones". Go back to the Keldagrim mines and tell Dondakan about what you learned from Roald's book.

Dondakan will, of course, will not be deterred from busting open the rock because there is a demon inside it. Ask him what he's tried using to open the rock. He's apparently tried using pickaxes, fire, and cannon balls made of Adamant and Rune. Use some Gold ore on Dondakan, he'll think the idea is crazy but he's willing to shoot a gold cannon ball at the rock if you bring him one. Smelt the ore, and then use the bar on the furnace while holding the mould. You'll be prompted to make a gold cannon ball or not, choose yes. Take the cannon ball to Dondakan.

Dondakan will shoot the cannon ball at the Rock, it will simply give way to the gold, allowing the Cannon Ball to fly right inside! Now, if he fire YOU out of the cannon while you're wearing a gold helmet, the rock should do the same thing. Right? First, the cannon must be modified to shoot humans. You're also going to need a solid gold helmet. Dondakan will give you part of the schematics for modifying the cannon, you'll need to find the rest. Go back across the river and talk to the Engineer again, he'll give you another set of schematics. Apparently some Dwarf from the White Wolf Mountain came up with the plans as a joke.

Go to the pass under the White Wolf Mountain, talk to Khorvak. He'll give you his part of the schematic in exchange for a Dwarven Stout (you pick one up off the tables). Finally, read the book you got from Rolad again, it will ask if you want to tear out the last page. Say yes, the last page turns out to be the final piece of the schematic. Click on one of the pieces to assemble the schematic. You'll need to move the transparent pieces over the piece from the book until they all roughly line up.

Now to make the helmet, all you need to do is use three gold bars on an anvil while there is a hammer in your inventory. Click on the "make gold helmet" option. Put on the helmet and take the schematic back to Dondakan, don't fill your inventory with food though. He'll shoot you into the rock. The inside of the rock is very strange, and full of gold rocks. The evil avatar of the Bordanzan spirit will threaten you and the gold helmet will get heavier the longer you stay.

To finish the quest you must defeat the evil spirit. First, fill your inventory with as much gold as you can carry. If you don't bring enough, the spirit will take no damage. I mined about 14 pieces and the demon was still level 125. He attacked me with magic, so you might want to bring dragonhide armor. Finally, go towards the large space in the middle of the rock. Jump over the flame wall and Talk to the larger wall of flames inside. The Bondanzan avatar will attack. You can retreat from the rock at any time by taking off your gold helmet.

If you defeat the Bordanzan avatar, you'll be sucked out of the rock. Pick you gold helmet up and talk to Dondakan. He'll be very grateful to you for making the rock safe for him to mine in, and he'll give you the quest reward.

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